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The GPL-Licensed Half-Life Engine Is Still Going

Phoronix: The GPL-Licensed Half-Life Engine Is Still Going

Continuing to advance as an open-source project is a game engine that's written from scratch with an aim of being compatible with the original Half-Life "Gold Source" engine. This GPL-licensed engine is already working with many original Valve games and mods...

MOARE!!!!

It's great to see open source game engines coming to linux, but I really want to see awesome things being done with them. Where is the Linux version of BF3 and crisis? I need a user for my crossfire 5770s other than luxrender GPU acceleration.

entropy
Does anybody know if there are reasons for Valve not to release the GoldSrc engine?
Besides that they simple don't want to, ofc.
3rd party stuff, etc...?

The goldsrc engine is derived from the first Quake engine and some feature picked from Quake 2 if I recall well. There may be some other third party (the sound system maybe), but nothing that is still relevent today.

I do think that the GoldSrc source code can still be found online, as it was included in the Source engine source leak. It may not be used as a basis for this engine, but for understanding that could quite be usefull.

The goldsrc engine is derived from the first Quake engine and some feature picked from Quake 2 if I recall well. There may be some other third party (the sound system maybe), but nothing that is still relevent today.

I do think that the GoldSrc source code can still be found online, as it was included in the Source engine source leak. It may not be used as a basis for this engine, but for understanding that could quite be usefull.

Yeah, but reading it might be considered reverse engineering, and not cleanroom. That means, if you read it and then code, you might be issued.